Questions about professional ethics arise when dual relationships or professional and client boundaries are violated. The American Psychological Association (APA) ethics committee revealed that 40 to 50% of complaints filed stem from dual relationship concerns (Meyer, 2005). The license held by psychological professionals is revoked when the professional does not respect the rights of clients. The main cause of professional dismissal is due to the dual relationship between the professional and his client (Meyer, 2005). The scenario presented in this article will discuss a dual relationship between a university professor, who is also a psychiatrist, and one of the professional's students. . The student seems upset and the teacher asks if everything is okay. The student explains the situation and the professor talks to the student for a few minutes and then goes to the office. The next day the student thanks the professor for listening and understands that the professor is a psychologist. The student asks the professor for his business card. The next day the student calls to make an appointment with the professor/psychologist. This scenario will be analyzed and used to explain the ethics of the situation and the challenges with boundaries that professionals must follow. What does a dual relationship mean (tammy) According to Ofer, the term dual relationship denotes any situation in which more than one person's role occurs between therapist and client (2007). Most consider a dual relationship to be the result of a sexual relationship between patient and client, but this is not always the case. While many cases of dual relationships are indeed sexual, most are not. Dual relationships are str...... half of the paper ......Dual relationships in consultant training: a qualitative analysis. Counselor Education & Supervision, 41(3), 193.Meyer, J., (2005). New legal perspectives: psychologists in dual relationships. American Psychological Association. Retrieved October 8, 2011, from http://www.apa.org/divisions/div12/legalper.pdf.Ofer, Z. (2007). Double relationships. In O. Zur (Ed.), Boundaries in psychotherapy: Ethical and clinical explorations (pp. 21-46). American Psychological Association. doi:10.1037/11563-001Pope, K. S., & Vasquez, M. J. T. (2007). Ethics in psychotherapy and counseling: A practical guide (3rd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/Wiley.Rupert, P.A., & Holmes, D.L. (1997, November/December). Dual relationships in higher education. Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 68, no. 6. Retrieved October 8, 2011, from https://blackboard.centenarycollege.edu.